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Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine. His name is Lord Doyle. His plan- to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau. His game- baccarat punto blanco -- 'that slutty dirty queen of casino ca ...Show more
Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into each other's lives to devastating effect. When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for danger, their relationship quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun, sea and high ...Show more
Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lionel Shriver: "I recommend all of Lawrence Osborne’s novels, especially for fans of Graham Greene or Paul Bowles. Smart and scathing, he’s a natural storyteller with a seductive prose style. I’ve pushed Osborne’s novels on dozens of people. Even in person, the guy doesn’t disappoint: six-foot-and-the ...Show more
Burning Angel and Other Stories by Lawrence Osborne
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first collection of stories by 'The bastard child of Patricia Highsmith and Graham Greene' (Metro) perfectly showcases Osborne's talent for tension, atmosphere -- and characters out of their depthA naïve young linguist sent to the forests of Irian Jaya is manipulated into betraying her mission by a ...Show more
Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A modern Graham Greene' Sunday Times Robert Grieve u pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher u decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand to Cambodia, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that first night, a small windfall p ...Show more
On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne
$23.00 AUD
Category: Crime
A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author of The ForgivenAfter twenty years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong Kong, Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to sh ...Show more
Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Philip Marlowe Ser.
Lionel Shriver: "I recommend all of Lawrence Osborne’s novels, especially for fans of Graham Greene or Paul Bowles. Smart and scathing, he’s a natural storyteller with a seductive prose style. I’ve pushed Osborne’s novels on dozens of people. Even in person, the guy doesn’t disappoint: six-foot-and-the ...Show more
Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Philip Marlowe Ser.
The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe - now in his seventy-second year - has been living out his retirement in the terrace bar of La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like under ...Show more
The Forgiven by Lawrence Osborne
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A modern Graham Greene". (Sunday Times). David and Jo Henniger are on their way to a party at their old friends' home, deep in the Moroccan desert. But as a groggy David navigates the dark desert roads, two young men spring from the roadside, the car swerves and collides with one of the boys...Meanwhil ...Show more
The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne
$33.00 AUD
Category: Crime
A tense, stunningly well-observed heist novel following an American woman on the run in the blazing heat of Bangkok, from 'a modern Graham Greene' (Sunday Times) Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to disappear. Arriving with a suitcase containing $200,000, sh ...Show more
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